Greg Abbott, Twitter police

The Office of the Attorney General and the Austin City Attorney’s office worked together to shut down a Twitter account that impersonated the Austin Police Department.

The account, @AustinPD, apparently had hundreds of followers before being suspended by Twitter last week at the request of state and city officials. Here’s why they acted:

Postings on the site featured fictitious updates about purportedly official APD activities, status and statistics. For example, one posting claimed announced that APD officers would be “making more stops” at this year’s South by Southwest festival.

@AustinPD’s page now reads, “Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity. Mosey along now, nothing to see here.”